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Magomed Abdusalamov punches Mike Perez during their Heavyweight fight at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 2

Heavyweight boxer Magomed Abdusalamov was brought out of his medically-induced coma and removed from a respirator by doctors at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan on Friday morning, according to Nathan Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing, Abdusalamov’s promoter.

Mr. Abdusalamov, 32 years old, opened his right eye and moved his right foot when he woke and is breathing on his own, Mr. Lewkowicz said, adding, “That’s very good progress considering three weeks ago they thought he was going to die within 48 hours.”

Abdusalamov suffered a brain injury during a 10-round match against Mike Perez at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 2. Read More »

Robert Guerrero poses at Westside Boxing Club in Los Angeles in November 2012. The boxer was arrested at JFK airport Thursday morning for criminal possession of a weapon.

The boxer Robert Guerrero was arrested Thursday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport for criminal possession of a weapon after attempting to check handgun on a Delta Airlines flight, authorities said.

The .40-caliber semiautomatic wasn’t loaded, and Guerrero, 30 years old, wasn’t carrying any ammunition, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He was arrested after airline staff notified Port Authority police.

Nicknamed “The Ghost,” Guerrero is a multi-division world champion with a 31-1-1 record, including 18 knockouts, and has a reputation as a tough and talented fighter. He was traveling Thursday morning to Las Vegas, where he is scheduled to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May. Read More »

Boxer Iran Barkley’s WBC Middleweight Championship belt — won in his 1988 fight against Tommy Hearns — was stolen from a Bronx public-housing development in October, police said Tuesday.

On Oct. 28, Barkley, 50 years old, returned from a doctor’s appointment to an apartment in the Patterson Houses in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx where he had been staying with relatives, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case said.

Barkley, who retired in 1999 following six consecutive defeats, discovered the belt was missing and reported it to police.

On Tuesday, the New York Police Department issued a request for the public’s assistance in locating the belt, describing the theft as a grand larceny. Read More »

Miguel Cotto, left, and Yuri Foreman square off at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, June 5.

As the Journal’s Sophia Hollander reports, Saturday’s boxing match between Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium is a modern rehash of an old ethnic rivalry: the Puerto Rican favorite, Cotto, against the Orthodox Jewish upstart, Foreman.

Recently, that rivalry has reared its head at the Manhattan office of the New York Department of State, where Puerto Rican and Jewish employees have been talking some serious trash. Most deeply involved in this friendly, inter-office exchange are Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez, the Secretary of State, and Joel Barkin, the deputy secretary of state for public affairs.

Since the fight was announced several months ago, Cortes-Vazquez, who is Puerto Rican-American, and Barkin, who is Jewish, have been going toe-to-toe, teasing each other about the fight, taping photos of Cotto or Foreman to each others’ desks and even making a friendly wager.

If Cotto prevails this weekend, “he’s going to have to eat Puerto Rican food for at least a week,” Cortes-Vazquez said of Barkin.

And if Foreman wins?

“She’ll have to eat at Katz’s” said Barkin, referring to the kosher-style deli on the Lower East Side. Read More »